Description: Piece of a marble
panel, w:
0.18 x h:
0.19 x d:
0.06, cut down for re-use.
Text: Inscribed on two faces at
different periods; a fragment of the earlier text, IGCyr 23200
survives on the upper face.
Letters: First century BCE; 0.02.
Date: First century BCE
Findspot:
Cyrene: Agora: found
before 1928.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ] Cor[nelius], son [of Publius, Lentulus] Marcellinus
Commentary
Oliverio may have been right to identify the subject with Cn. Cornelius P.F. Lentulus Marcellinus, Pompey's legate in Libya in 67 BCE (see DPRR Corn2082), for whom see also C.271, C.280, C.688; and if so, this text presumably antedates C.271 and C.280 in which he is described as patron. It may be, however, that this is a different Marcellinus, possibly the quaestor of 75 BCE, DPRR Corn2071; see further Reynolds, art.cit.
Bibliography: Oliverio, 1929, 15, p.142, and fig 40, whence SEG 9.160, PHI 324011. Republished, Reynolds, 1962, 3, mentioned SEG 20.731, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.560.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. From left: C.132, C.97 and IGCyr 12700; below, C.134,fragment b. (Department of Antiquities, F31-378)
Fig. 2. Face (Department of Antiquities, F31-378)